In St. Petersburg announced a contest to choose a new prime contractor for the completion of the second stage of the Mariinsky Theatre. As written today, July 13, the newspaper “Kommersant”, the new contract for the development of 2.9 billion rubles provides performance only half the work required.
By bidding documents published on state orders, 2.94 billion will be spent on construction and cladding facades, roofs and other delights. From the constructions of the auditorium while allowed to build a balcony, amphitheaters, and gender. On chairs and “acoustic body” in a word document. The sum of the contract is little more than half from 5.429 billion rubles allocated for the construction of the theater in 2011. Sources of “b” in the North-West direction on the construction, reconstruction and restoration (FDD) Ministry of Culture (customer building a second stage for the Mariinsky Theater – approx. BakuToday ) Explains that the competition so far exhibited works, provided the design and estimate documentation, and then will be awarded a new contract. At the same time completely design and theater is not finished, but its opening postponed to 2013.
It should say that the new contractor customer chooses the second stage of Marinka six months after approval Glavgosexpertiza new estimates. May 30, 2011, the Russian government officially approved the final cost of the project, which will amount to 19.172 billion rubles. Recall that the doubling of prices occurred in connection with the replacement project Dominique Perrault (who won an international competition in 2003) for a different solution, proposed by Canadian architectural firm of Diamond & Schmitt Architects.
Minister of Culture Alexander Avdeev said last week that the theater will be built in the middle of 2012. Today, however, clear that the complete construction on schedule will not succeed. Exposed to competition half of the contract will be completed within 16 months after its conclusion. Summing up is scheduled for August 30, will conclude a contract that is not until September and will perform in January 2013.
How will the combined work performed by the current contractor under the old contract, signed on the basis of the project with the work of Perrault’s new contract is unknown. It is also unclear when the competition will be exhibited at the last general contracting and many general contractors will be working on the same site in the final.
